He always put his shots to the same side of the target, and had never discovered that if he only aimed a little to the right, he would hit the target.
I saw a man counting stamps at an hotel. He was wetting his finger to turn them over and got the whole lot into one sticky mass.
This latter man was perhaps so used to counting paper money by wetting his finger that he was doing it mechanically with these stamps whilst thinking of something else.
The former man looked an intelligent man and was so most probably in his business, but he cannot ever have used his brains in pistol shooting.
I put a man right once who was shooting at a black “man” figure in competition.
He shot very badly. I asked him what was the matter. Unlike most men who tell you to mind your own business, and make you chary of helping any one, this man asked me if I could assist him.
He said he could not see his front sight on the target and feared something was wrong with his eyes.
I showed him it was not his eyes but the black front sight of his pistol on the black target which was at fault.
I put a big blob of Chinese white on his front sight squeezed from a water colour tube.
He won first prize with a highest possible score.